CEI/MDM-CH/CG/PRG/LOG/2024 of 13/11/2024
Founded in 1993, Doctors of the World Switzerland (MdM-CH) is a humanitarian organization working in Switzerland and internationally to establish sustainable access to healthcare for excluded people.
Present in Cameroon since 2013, MdM-CH deploys a strategy whose main goal is to improve the living conditions of vulnerable populations through the implementation of programs focused on 3 main thematic axes: the promotion of SRHR (sexual and reproductive health and rights), the fight against violence and the popularization of pediatric palliative care.
For over a decade, Cameroon has been facing 3 complex humanitarian crises: the Lake Chad Basin conflict, the North-West and South-West crisis (NOSO) and the refugee crisis in the Central African Republic (CAR). The conflict in the North West and South West Regions has placed constraints on access to essential services for the populations including maternal and child health services due to the destruction and/or occupation of health facilities by the protagonists of the conflict, and the exodus of healthcare personnel to safer areas.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE PROJECT
With the support of its financial partner, MdM-CH is currently implementing an 8-month project titled “Strengthening access to maternal neonatal and infant/child health care for the populations of 3 health districts in Northwest Cameroon.” In line with the National Programme for the Fight against Maternal and Neonatal Mortality, this project has as its objective to contribute to the reduction of maternal and Neonatal morbi-mortality in the Wum, Benakuma and Njikwa health districts. The primary beneficiaries of this project are internally displaced populations and vulnerable members of host communities including women of procreation age and children under 5.
As with all MdM-CH’s projects, this intervention is part of a dynamic that combines institutional anchoring to facilitate the development of service provision and community anchoring to improve demand, all to reduce exclusion and move towards universal access to healthcare.
Achieving the objectives of this intervention is based on the implementation of a series of interventions linked to the three levers of the Cameroon health system:
- Institutional services in maternal and child health
- Community health and
- Governance.
Taking into account the health challenges faced by the target health districts, and the desire to improve the supply of and access to maternal and child health care services for host communities and internally displaced persons, the project also aims to improve the infrastructure of 11 partner health facilities.
As part of the rehabilitation works identified during an evaluation survey, MdM-CH intends to engage the services of an external consultant to conduct a technical assessment of the works to be carried out. The deliverables of this assessment will serve as the basis for drawing up a call for expressions of interest for contracting a company to carry out the works.
Interested candidates can get the Terms of Reference through the link below:
Submission Deadline: 22nd November 2024 at 5:00 PM
